The After Effects 8.0.2 update is live, and so is the new After Effects CS3 Help on the Web. To get the update, choose Help > Updates. To see all of what has changed, see the ReadMe document:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403043

Here's a link to After Effects Help on the Web, in case you forgot:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/

And here's a link to the page from which you can download a PDF copy of the Help document:
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/aftereffects/

Beyond the additions to Help for P2 functionality, we made several hundred changes to the document for this version, most of which fall into two categories:

- We fixed a lot of little errors and clarified explanations based on feedback in LiveDocs comments and feedback from the LiveDocs survey.

- We added a lot of links from Help to external resources.

One of the things that we heard from last quarter's survey was that After Effects documentation is incomplete (but accurate, yay!). One very fast way to fill some gaps is to point users to the example projects, tutorials, and other materials that people like you create and publish. Some of you have been adding LiveDocs comments to Help on the Web that point to these great materials. We've incorporated many of those links---plus a great many more---in the parts of Help where we thought that these external materials could help the user. We intend to do much more of this if you tell us that you find it valuable.

Also, there are a lot of extensions to After Effects (some free, some not) that make After Effects work better. We also point to some of those. How did we pick which ones to point to? In part, we went by what we were being told in LiveDocs comments and on forums. If you don't see a mention of a plug-in, script, or other tool that you think is great, tell us through the LiveDocs comments in Help on the Web.

So, thank you to all of the people and organizations whose instructional material and software we now point to from After Effects Help or whose LiveDocs comments have led to substantial improvements:

Can anybody confirm that this update works with the trial version as well?

I am using the CS3 trial right now, i was able to download and install the 8.02-patch but AE behaves exactly the same as before, p2-footage(mxf/xml-files) is not recognized as a valid format!

Can anybody help me on this?
Id really like to test this until my trial expires in 5 days...this workflow with native p2 and AAF import is really important to my workflow..whis will make my decission over upgrading to CS3 or not..so please help!

hvxgermanboy

p.s.if somebody of the Adobe-team is listening: will there be a new AE CS3-trial that comes directly with the 8.02 version?